Mercedes-Benz AMG, lengthy recognized for its tire-shredding V-8 and V-12 engines, is effectively on its manner towards providing a various electrical portfolio.

The Affalterbach tuner already provides its personal variations of Mercedes’ EQE sedan, EQE SUV, and EQS hatchback, and at the moment it’s engaged on its first devoted EV, a prototype for which has simply been noticed.

The devoted EV will likely be based mostly on AMG’s personal modular EV platform, often known as AMG.EA, and is anticipated to debut in late 2025. The timing suggests it’ll attain the U.S. as a 2026 mannequin.

As our spy photographs present, the EV will likely be a brilliant modern hatchback with 4 doorways, making it a possible electrical various to the present GT 4-Door Coupe, a car whose identify it might carry into manufacturing. The 2 variations are prone to be offered alongside each other for a interval, as the present GT 4-Door Coupe was solely up to date final 12 months.

2026 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT 4-Door Coupe EV spy photographs – Photograph credit score: Baldauf

Mercedes additionally introduced final week that it has deserted a plan to go the electric-only route in main markets by the tip of the last decade. As a substitute the automaker plans to proceed providing gas-powered autos effectively into the following decade, and probably longer. This implies the GT 4-Door Coupe with a gasoline engine might stick round for longer than beforehand deliberate.

AMG teased a possible design for its first devoted EV with the reveal of 2022’s Imaginative and prescient AMG idea. The idea was constructed to showcase the probabilities of the AMG.EA platform and was confirmed by AMG to characteristic axial-flux motors developed by Yasa, an organization wholly owned by Mercedes and which focuses on high-performance electrical motors.

Axial-flux motors are each lighter and smaller than typical radial-flux motors of comparable output. Nonetheless, manufacturing axial-flux motors is tougher, making them rather a lot much less cost-effective. One production-bound unit weighs simply 53 kilos however generates as much as 480 hp, Yasa chief Tim Woolmer informed Autocar. Two of these motors would give the AMG near 1,000 hp.

Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea

Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea

The automobile’s modern design will additional help effectivity. AMG is anticipated to make use of energetic aerodynamic options and even a printed emblem much like what’s used on AMG’s Components 1 automobiles and the One hypercar. An energetic rear spoiler can clearly be seen in among the spy photographs.

AMG has loads of expertise with electrical energy. It first examined the waters in 2014 with the SLS AMG Electrical Drive. It was the quickest, strongest EV in the marketplace on the time due to its 740-hp output. Since then, AMG has gathered extra expertise, significantly within the areas of vitality discharging and restoration, from its F1 program.

Earlier than the arrival of its first devoted EV, AMG is anticipated to introduce a tuned model of the following CLA-Class, a prototype for which can also be out testing.